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Tony Cragg is a British sculptor who has lived and worked in Wuppertal, Germany for thirty years. His honors include several major museum exhibitions, mostly in Europe, and representation of Great Britain during the 43rd Biennale di Venezia and the Turner Prize, both in 1988.

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The night started out with Flux Radio + TV. Five small televisions and one radio were wheeled out on a cart and turned on; images and sounds of the day’s news blared for ten minutes. Then came Variations on a Theme by Saint-Saëns for cello and keyboard.

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At Chashamas 44th Street gallery, the collaborative team Trouble and the B-Keepers (Sam Hillmer and Laura Paris) invited over fifty performance groups, noise musicians and DJs to perform throughout the month of May.

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Bedeviled by its roots in conceptualism, installation art is seen as inherently more political than painting. In the 90s, any really tedious piece of Po-Mo dogmawhats that, did I hear the words Whitney Biennial?was nine times out of ten three-dimensional.

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In order to pass muster with the critical establishment, art today needs to be a critique. It must reveal an awareness of cultural perceptions dating back as far as the 60s such as: America has a racist history, or Male sexuality tends to objectify females, or High art is about cultural snobbery.

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Not only does the emperor have no clothes, hes bloated, vulgar, ignorant, complacent, and wallowing in historically unprecedented mountains of cash, with bile-colored spittle flecking the corners of his mouth.

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Even a non-reader knows that books stack up quickly and ravenously consume space. Once theyve taken the bookcase proper, they spread onto the secondary bookshelves: the desk, the dresser, the kitchen table, the back of the toilet, the car seat

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The quandary with Gregory Amenoffs paintings is that he has never stepped back and interrogated that initial flush of deep feeling he had about the American visionary tradition, particularly Arthur Dove, at its most optimistic heights.

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There were only three works on display in Reuben Kadish’s Holocaust Sculpture at the Yeshiva University Museum, but those three spoke volumes about the visceral force of an artistic maverick who unaccountably remains in the margins of post-WWII American art history.

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H.C. Westerman (1922-1981), one of the lone wolves of American art, served in both World War II and the Korean War and emerged a scathing critic of Americas ascendant militarism and mindless materialism.

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In Abby Leighs painting, a naturalists sense of empiricism coexists with a mystics sense of wonder. In her previous show at Betty Cuningham, entitled Systems, the naturalist in Leigh was dominant.

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Nicholas Krushenick (1929-1999) has rightfully been called the father of pop abstraction, which suggests that a lot of what is currently going on owes something to him. And while this is certainly the case, this well-meaning sobriquet doesnt tell half the story.

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Eric Holzman has a fondness for aged surfaces, which he creates as substrate for his modestly scaled drawings of landscapes, portraits and still-lifes. Drawings 1990-2007, a recent exhibitionat the New York Studio School, surveys the variety of touch he achieves with watercolor, egg tempera, charcoal and graphite.